
Rick
Member-
Content Count
93 -
Joined
-
Last visited
About Rick
-
Rank
Member
Registration Profile Information
-
Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
Ballet goer
-
City**
New York
-
State (US only)**, Country (Outside US only)**
NY
Recent Profile Visitors
499 profile views
-
Catazaro Declines NYCB Reinstatement; Ramasar to Rejoin
Rick replied to mille-feuille's topic in New York City Ballet
Amar will play Bernardo in the upcoming Broadway revival of West Side Story, scheduled to begin previews in December 2019. I think this means he won't be in NYCB's winter and spring seasons? The new Ivo van Hove production will also replace Jerome Robbins's choreography with that of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. 'West Side Story' Broadway Revival Cast Unveiled -
Curious that no one has posted about Prodigal Son on Wednesday night with Joaquin de Luz and Maria Kowroski. It was so amazing. I didn't think that the partnering would work due to the difference in their height but Joaquin seemed so young, vulnerable, and powerless against Maria's femme fatale siren. I'll definitely be there on Sunday for joaquin's farewell.
-
Hungarian National Ballet tour to NY, Oct/Nov 2018
Rick replied to CharlieH's topic in Other European Companies
I plan to see Swan Lake. FWIW the Wagner Society of New York has a promo code on their Facebook page. -
http://slippedisc.com/2018/09/new-york-times-loses-its-best-critic/
-
From a review of Farrell's autobiography: It was true that she (Farrell) didn’t have to sleep with Balanchine to be cast in his ballets, but that didn’t mean that the person she chose to sleep with instead would be cast in his ballets. Mejia did not have a large repertory, but what he had he began losing. Finally one evening when Mejia was not given a role that he felt was his due—Symphony in C, third movement—Farrell issued an ultimatum: if Mejia didn’t dance in Symphony in C that night, they would both quit. To her utter astonishment, Balanchine took her up on it. Not only was Mejia not